Apple sues Samsung over the Galaxy line, ITC siding up with Nokia and HTC against Apple

0.phoneArena
19 Apr 2011, 02:17posted on

Apple is taking Samsung to court, claiming that its Galaxy line, and more specifically, the Galaxy S phones and Galaxy Tab slate, are copying not only iOS elements like icons, but also the physical appearance of Apple's gadgets...

Apple looks scared & weak. Anyone who Apple sees as a threat, they just take to court. The rectangular design is so common. Why not take the whole mobile industry to court. Round edges c'mon every phone made since 98 has had round edges. I have never owned a phone with a pointy edge. To me Apple looks bad in all of this. So now that you are not # 1 then you start taking people to court. This is just ruining their PR!

Only an absolute moron would be unable to tell these phones apart. So a couple of icons look similar, Samsung uses common sense tech in its screens, and the general shape of two of the phones is similar to the iPhone's on the front. GET OVER IT, APPLE. Spend some of those millions you're dropping down the tubes in lawsuits and put that money into developing a phone that's actually innovative and superior again.

Dear Apple, Samsung has made over 50% of ur parts that go into ur products for the last several generations. Now that they are making their own products ur shocked the look slightly similar. Fuck you.
Love, Common Sense.

7.G7 (unregistered)

8.andro (unregistered)

Apple sueing Samsung? has Steve Jobs no shame,half the component for their iphone has been designed and manufactured by Samsung,Apples draconian thirst for control knows no bounds. Funny enough one of the few parts of the iphone directly designed and manufactured by apple themselves for the iphone 4 is the antenna and thats the major fault with it.

Apples feeling the pressure,android is now world leader and with ios being predicted to fall back to 3rd place in os terms Apple is becoming more desperate reacting with measures like this,Steve Jobs allowing flash back on ios shows this also.

The Samsung Galaxy s2 looks like it'll be a major big hitter this year and Steve Jobs is getting ready to get angry again

9.androisaretard (unregistered)

33.AppleFUD (unregistered)

Hello retard. . . Steve Jobs has not retired. He is on permanent medical leave but still CEO of Apple while Tim Cook handles the daily running. He still calls the shots and can return any time he want. Get a clue before opening your mouth!

10.b (unregistered)

Apple sueing companies because they make mobile phones many of which make better phones than theirs. Its funny these companies are in the phone business alot longer than apple but Apple seem to think they invented mobiles

Well, we all know Samsung the Galaxy series is "Apple's product for Apple's haters". If you like iPhone, iPad and Macbook Air but hate Apple from top to bottom then Samsung will offer you Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab and 9 Series laptop.

But that's how the industry works. This lawsuit is pretty much like Motorola suing Nokia for making mobile phone.

16.IOS5 (unregistered)

How did the Galaxy series copy iphone? Well...
1)Apple gave iphone a rectangular shape, samsung made their phones rectangular in shape too
2)Apple decided to put a screen on the iphone. Samsung did the same
3)Apple decided that a camera would look nice on the back of the phone. Samsung copied that.

Are you serious?.....
What shape should the phone be? Round?
Why would anyone put camera on the front part of the phone. Have you ever seen such phone?
I would think twice before commenting if I were you.

I think rycx365 was using something called sarcasm and was calling Apple out with harsh derision and irony.

Let me pry that off the wall over your head...

maybe if a little more heavy handed...
4) Apple gave the iPhone a visual interface so that those who could see would be able to garner information from it. So did Samsung
5) Apple gave the phone sound so that those who could hear would be able to use it when not looking at it. So did Samsung...

Newsflash. Apple sues God for letting there be light. Apple media relations gave a press release stating, "While God may have created light, Apple applied for and was granted the patent on using light in a mobile device screen so that owners can see it."
It does not look good for God in this lawsuit as Apple clearly has a good argument for infringement: God never filed a patent and light is now Apple's Intellectual Property...

23.applesauce (unregistered)

I would believe any other major company that has been making cell phones for more than 5 years over apple in any and all claims about patents and/or intellectal property, mostly because I find it hard to believe a company could come out of nowhere and make something like the iphone without stealing stuff from a myriad of sources (which is more or less company law: the original concept for what would become the Macintosh computer was done by Xerox, of all companies). It's also my belief that one of the many reasons the iphone (and everything else made by apple) is made in china is because of its patent infringements, and chinese companies, as many of us are well aware, just loves to "borrow" ideas/designs/IP/etc from other companies. Granted, sometimes their versions offer improvements, but they're still blatant IP thefts.

Inspiration is different from imitation. Audi was inspired by BMW's corona rings. So what did Audi do? Did they install corona rings on their Audi's? No. They came up with their own linear or L shaped LED lights to achieve similar dramatic effect that the BMW's corona rings have. Now that's inspiration, not imitation. Apple products are also inspired by devices that came out before their's. But they didn't simply copy. They innovated from those existing designs. Don't be silly.

Most of the time I try to be polite.... but not today.... I need to see something burn! so I'll leave gasoline here and hope you guys set this thread on fire! (phonearena needs some extra $$$ to pay bills this month anyways)http://i.imgur.com/aLGOQ.jpg

Oh please. It's not even close. Use your common sense. There would be a degree of similarities between these touchscreen devices. There's only so much they can do to make one dramatically different. Although Apple has done that. But for a device to look almost exactly the same as the other is downright copying. Stop playing innocent.

"UPDATE: It looks like the F700 was actually first announced in February 2007 — a month after Steve Jobs debuted the iPhone — and was released in December 2007, months after the iPhone’s debut. Worse, it was greeted with accusations of being a complete iPhone ripoff!"

Look at the UI on the Fascinate: when you get into the app tray, you have icons with rounded edges and a side-scrolling menu instead of a vertically-scrolling menu. Apps that are downloaded appear in sequential order of download, not alphabetical order like on HTC or Motorola Android phones. It's obvious that Samsung took some influence from Apple's design, but holding the two devices side by side, it's also quite easy to tell the devices apart.

Keep in mind that Apple is also the company that applied for patents on the gestures (not just the hardware, but the gestures) you use to interact with the device, as well as software that would allow Apple to record voice calls, take biometric readings, and take pictures with both cameras if they found you had jailbroken the device.

30.ollie (unregistered)

OMFG, APPLE THE FAGS.... apple is suing the samsung for the design similarities in the samsung galaxy s and the iphone 4, but the galaxy s came out before the iphone fucking 4. and they dont own ficking icons and pinch zoom was around on touch computers made in like 2005 so apple can't complian. APPLE your the most hypercritical company i know. just because your a scared that android & other mobile phone companys will absolutely pown you when it comes to making phones. corperate bitches... if you hold up the luanch of the samsung galaxy s2 i will figging rip your steve Precious jobs and his loyars head off.... IM NOT A HAPPY PERSON :( zzzz

35.Xpple (unregistered)

lmao. . . dude. . . breath. . . their just phones and nothing is going to be held up. Just like the Nokia, HTC Vs Apple lawsuits haven't slowed anything down. More than likely this will just piss Sammy off more and they'll step things up even more = better for us cause they'll release some serious kit. Just look how they stepped up the Tab after Jobs mouthed off about them.

apple u sucks you are getting scare that android os going to be number one from years to come let me phrase that they are number one same going to happen with android tablet they will be one step ahead of you to me the ipad 2 sucks look at those new tablets coming out better spec better screen resolution and they all have flash player something you dont have because you are a company that like to rip people money bootom line you are loosing this war android will rule from years to come

Ummm, android already too over the market share months ago. But Apple still holds the higher capital share. So I don't think that Apple is scared of android devices at all. Apple just wants the copying to stop. It's not flattering anymore. Apple is still the topdog, the rest are just a poor man's iphone and ipad wannabes :)

66.GetALife (unregistered)

40.Smartphone Fan (unregistered)

This is so funny, it is a lame law suit. A little late. I mean apple come on you should of filed this law suit two years ago. The Galaxy Vibrant and captivate when it came out I saw the picture here on this site a year a go and said. 'oh my, this looks like an Iphone, DUh!'

Apple you knew they where going to come out with this phone a long time before it launched and now that they are kicking your tail you want their money. Come on. Microsoft must of encouraged you to do this so late in the game they are notorious for late law suits. Hey why dont you come out with that affordable IPHONE for 200.00 bucks already.
I love apple products too, except for the dumb battery...

51.AppleFUD (unregistered)

I'm not sure about that.
According to wikipedia at least.
As you can see from the stats Samsung probably made the same or more than Apple in 2010 and is a much bigger company. You're probably stuck on the idea of "market cap" and that doesn't really matter to anyone outside of wall street and can change very quickly. In fact Microsoft's market cap was adjusting in the 90s because they had too much of an impact on the market--that's the only reason Apple currently has a higher market cap.

Stop beating around the bush. Just go directly to how much the company is worth. I have no clue where you got your rundown figures from, but according to Forbes, Apple is worth $255.18 billion. Now tell me how much Samsung is worth. I believe Samsung is only worth somewhere around $100 billion.

100.FYI (unregistered)

FYI. . .
AppleFUD's numbers are from Wikipedia

I would think that major companies make sure that their Wikipedia page is correct.

Can't find where aruegas found his/her info but it's clearly more related to stocks and doesn't give us a year state only quarter. . . from what I can gather and without a ledger the average person doesn't know what mrq & ttm stands for.

My goodness. All these fandroids. Is there a fandroid convention going on in here? Lol.

Let Apple sue whoever they want. If they feel cheated, then let them sue. Aren't fandroids advocates of freedom? Well Apple has that freedom too you know. And let's not deny the obvious. Samsung has been copying Apple designs for years now. Apple was lenient w/ them because they do supply Apple with hardware parts, and I think Samsung took advantage of Apple's leniency. But now that Apple is getting their parts somewhere else, that leniency has diminished, and it's time for Samsung to stop copying Apple products' designs. And please stop already with, "Prada came out first" line. No one cared for the Prada phone, ok. Samsung is copying Apple's iphone and ipad, and they need to stop. Period.

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